The word people almost always mean when they say "less." Used comparatively to indicate a smaller number of objects or discrete ideas.
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According to grammar nazis, there is a rule that “fewer” only modifies countable nouns and that “less” can only modify mass (uncountable) nouns. However, this "rule" is just one of the many superfluous decisions made in the 18th-century by pretentious douchbags who felt that certain things were mistakes simply because they didn't seem elegant or proper enough.
Despite what they say, the rule is not even commonly followed. This is probably because not everyone is anal retentive enough to quibble over arbitrary details that have little to do with how the language is actually understood and used by normal people.
According to grammar nazis, there is a rule that “fewer” only modifies countable nouns and that “less” can only modify mass (uncountable) nouns. However, this "rule" is just one of the many superfluous decisions made in the 18th-century by pretentious douchbags who felt that certain things were mistakes simply because they didn't seem elegant or proper enough.
Despite what they say, the rule is not even commonly followed. This is probably because not everyone is anal retentive enough to quibble over arbitrary details that have little to do with how the language is actually understood and used by normal people.
Supermarket signs should read “10 items or fewer”, not “10 items or less”.
Fewer people showed up to the party than I expected.
I need to eat fewer doughnuts and drink less soda.
This book has fewer than 200 pages.
I have one fewer card than you.
We have fewer than 15 minutes to get there!
I have fewer than 20 dollars.
It’s fewer than five miles away.
She’s fewer than six years old.
Fewer people showed up to the party than I expected.
I need to eat fewer doughnuts and drink less soda.
This book has fewer than 200 pages.
I have one fewer card than you.
We have fewer than 15 minutes to get there!
I have fewer than 20 dollars.
It’s fewer than five miles away.
She’s fewer than six years old.
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Get the Gangsta Fever mug.It's really difficult for a person who living in a free world to comprehend the extent of the ignorance of the Russians. Decades of propaganda have really done its job, even Joseph Goebbels would've been jealous of such an achievement.
They do not know their history, more precisely; their HONEST history. From lies cannot learn anything and that's why they repeat the same mistakes over and over again. Let's take an example, the Germans are aware of what Nazis did, but these brainwashed tools only know official fairy tails, which they regard as their historiography, although the brutality of the Red Army was no different from that of the Nazis. Today the Russian armed forces are murdering and committing atrocities against civilians in Ukraine at least as effectively as the Red (rape) Army did during WWII. It can hardly be considered as a humane sign that at least it's not yet known that girls under the age of ten have been raped in Ukraine, when their predecessor's orgies usually began from 9-year-olds.
Of course there are reasonable and knowledgeable people in Russia who do not believe blatant lies, unfortunately vatniks and their totalitarian mindset are the majority to keep the war criminal Putler in power - at least so far..
They do not know their history, more precisely; their HONEST history. From lies cannot learn anything and that's why they repeat the same mistakes over and over again. Let's take an example, the Germans are aware of what Nazis did, but these brainwashed tools only know official fairy tails, which they regard as their historiography, although the brutality of the Red Army was no different from that of the Nazis. Today the Russian armed forces are murdering and committing atrocities against civilians in Ukraine at least as effectively as the Red (rape) Army did during WWII. It can hardly be considered as a humane sign that at least it's not yet known that girls under the age of ten have been raped in Ukraine, when their predecessor's orgies usually began from 9-year-olds.
Of course there are reasonable and knowledgeable people in Russia who do not believe blatant lies, unfortunately vatniks and their totalitarian mindset are the majority to keep the war criminal Putler in power - at least so far..
Hopefully the rest of the most gullible fools in the civilized world finally have become aware of how devious the Russian vatniks are since the Ignoramuses' Federation who is murdering, torturing, raping and looting in Ukraine for the second time within a few years.
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